Thursday, June 24, 2010

Meet "Jeremy," who lined up in front of the Apple Store in Reston's Fake Downtown at 8 last night, in hopes of being the first to get one of the new fancy cellular phones with built-in Twitters or whatever the kids are so crazy about these days. Or maybe he thinks he's camping out for Bobby Sherman tickets. Who knows?

According to this "web logger," there were at least 200 people waiting in line at 5:30 am for one of the fancy new iPhones. Please to be enjoying this grainy, Wire-like video of a ruly mob queuing up.

Won't they be disappointed when the doors open and they realize they've been waiting to get into the Pottery Barn?

Update: Reston web logger "Snarkshelf" posted this exciting photo of someone consulting their iPhone to check on the wait for an iPhone.

No need for Restonian to reach into his emergency fund for RA assessment increases and buy that "maga-zine". Here's the relevant part of Lileks' comments:

"Did most of my writing outside, and took a break to look through a copy of American Home I picked up at an antique store the other day. 1965."

"The magazine had a big layout on a new planned community called “Reston,” which was going to change the way people lived. And it did, if people lived in Reston, I suppose. It looks grim today, what with all the raw naked poured concrete, but those were the styles that pointed to the sensible, technocratic future. I spent a year living in an enormous project designed in the brutal concrete style, and it was like a machine for grinding souls into wet paste. Planned communities work best when the visuals go backwards, not forwards."

But wait! There's more!

Commenter "Borderman" writes in response to that passage:

"Lived in Alexandria and commuted to my high school job in Reston on Saturdays, Jan.-Sept. 1968, for a start up electronics firm that I see still has a phone listing at the same address. Was so trendy to mention you worked in Reston back then. As if you were pals with Ayn Rand or something".

Being but a humble peasant, I admit that I did not know who Lileks was at first, but I now see he is a blogger of some renown. I thought the following line from his Wikipedia entry a particularly interesting comment about his Website:

"His section dissecting the works of cheesecake artist Art Frahm, for instance, observes the devastating effects of celery on the gravitational pull of women's underwear."